Investment funds are at the heart of a controversy long of several weeks in Great Britain. The deterioration of working conditions and the massive job suppressions that they impose, weighed against the record surplus value that they collect at the time of the company's resell are more and more intolerable in the eyes of unions and some British political personalities, asking for an intervention form public powers. (Ref. 070176)
Investment funds, even though they are very discreet, control an important part of British economy, to the point that the companies they own employ 3 million people, that is to say a fifth of the private sector’s employees. Public opinion has been moved for a while by mass layoffs usually following buyouts, such as in the cases of AA (3,400 people discharged) and Birds Eye (600 jobs suppressed out of 1,500,) both bought off by Permira, the biggest European investment fund. Currently, National C
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